#although.

[asurrogateblog]

a game I enjoy playing with myself is music industry wife swap. you take two bands, switch out one member from each of them, and imagine the resulting consequences. your goal is to come up with a swap that is the most reasonably believable that would also lead to the fastest possible self-destruction for both bands

[neverpathia]

wife

[saintfrenetic]

been rewatching gravity falls with boyfriend. i knew I'd missed a lot of episodes due to not personally having cable (friend's house, she was real into it). boyfriemd fell asleep and im not tired, so i finallt started owl house (interested in the concepts, MANY friends have recommend it)

anyways. stan & eda 4ever. im drunk, ive watched one (1) episode of owl house (lie but no it isnt. ive SEEN more than this episode. i dont remember FUCK because it was a) not the whole episode or b) was but i was SO stoned. not lying...not true either. ha ha)

[getlancered]

fanmade dialouge of talking to seam after the snowgrave route!! i wish something like this had happened tbh…

also don’t take the evil flowey text noise too seriously it’s just the only eerie text noise i could use

[mimiyanna]

Oh my god the way the Stormblood Astrologian job quests shine more light on the Four Lords trial questline.... 😢

[ourlordapollo]

One time I had an extremely vivid dream about falling off a bridge way up in the fucking mountains and now every time I see a local TikTok filmed on. a bridge. in the mountains. I go "HOLY FUCK IT'S THE BRIDGE FROM MY DREAM."

NO, genius, it's the Pacific Northwest. Every mountain bridge west of the Cascades looks exactly the same 😭

[wubbybubbly]

I love how most of the ships in the aa fandom have long lists of “evidence” that provide multiple examples of “romantic” moments, and then there’s powersworth enjoyers (me) who have nothing to work with besides a handful of meaningless interactions and utter fantasies

[gaylittleguys]

who up feeling weird and offputting

[cctinsleybaxter]

well now i’m thinking about if they Had handled a&c well in s1 and were able to give them a spin-off series that was a little different in tone than the original and actually made sense with them as the mains a la better call saul

[rememberthelaughtermp3]

I say this every time but I genuinely love trains so much

[citrinesparkles]

microdosing on writing by uploading old works to ao3 <3

[sar3nka]

My love life is like Twilight but worse because we are all so mentally unwell it's unreal

[izulu-kun]

@woobifykamukura Lychee

if you make an OC that you are genuinely insane over, like you are obsessed with this freak and can't stop thinking about them, then it will rub off on other people. the virus spreads

[fipindustries]

>be me, massive egg

>kind of a 6/10, mid looking, glasses, nerdy clothes, scruffy beard, baggy eyes

>have a type that i have to hots for

>gothy wth bangs, slightly chubby

>egg cracks, transition, dye my hair, change my fashion style, gain weight do to eating healthier

>mfw i became my type

>always was a little bi but now with hormones i start developing more of an attraction for men

>find out i like nerdy, scruffy guys with glasses and baggy eyes

>mfw past me is now my type

>wtf

[artemisdesari-blog]

A writer friend told me something that broke my heart a little bit today; they're going to quit publishing their fanfic.

My instant thought was that they had been trolled or attacked or that something terrible had happened in their life because this person is so passionate about their writing. It wasn't any of that. Engagement with their works has been going down, as it has for many of us. Comments are like gold dust a lot of the time, and just looking through the historical comment counts on old fics on ao3 demonstrates this trend very clearly. It was not simply the comments dropping off which caused them to decide to stop posting, however.

My friend came across a discord server for their fandom (I should point out here that their fandom interest and mine diverged a couple of years ago, we stay in touch but don't currently read each other's posts because I'm not into their fandom and they would rather gouge their eyes out with a wooden spoon than read anything Star Wars) and specifically to share fic in that fandom. They joined, because we all love a good fic rec, only to discover that their latest multichapter fic, which has almost no comments and very few kudos, is being hotly discussed in this server as one of the best stories ever. Not one of these people has bothered to say this to them on the fic. When they asked, none of participants could see the point in telling the author of the fic they apparently loved so much that they love it.

This discovery has absolutely destroyed my friend's love of sharing fic. They share because they love seeing other people's enjoyment, and fic writers do that through comments and kudos/reblogs/likes because we don't get paid. There is no literary critic writing a blog post/article about how amazing the story is for us to copy and keep/frame. There is no money from royalties. All we have are the words of the people reading our works.

Those people on that server could have taken five minutes of the time they spent gushing about how amazing my friend's story was to other people and used it to tell the one person guaranteed to want to hear that praise how much they loved it. They could have taken a moment to express their opinion to the person who spent hours upon hours plotting, writing, editing, and posting those chapters. Instead, they deprived my friend of thing that keeps them sharing their writing, and in the process have killed their love of it. My friend now feels used and unmotivated.

I won't be sharing a link to their fic, they said I could share their experience but not their identity. I know they plan to post one final chapter. I know they intend to express their hurt at being excluded from the praise for the thing they created, and I know they intend to announce that as a consequence they will not be posting for a long while, if at all.

So please, I beg you, don't hide your love of a story from the writer. It's just about the only thing we have.